Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02

running time OF the trains that inter
feres with your trade. A bandof train
robbers from Missouri came here five
years ago, hoping 10 establish branch
OF their great cooperative train wreck
ing and robbing emporium, but they
were not successful.
IL is aaiug tnaJ they established them
selves up near Round Knob, armed to
the teeth, and awaited the arrival OF the
train.
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lime passed on.
AT first they were not very hungry,
and did not think it advisable to deyour
any of their number, but at last starva-
ton overpowered good resolutions and
reason; so one after another OF the
younger and weaker OF the band yielded
to the irenzied and famine-stricken
fragment of the once buoyant and self
reliant company.
Al last one night just rs the moon
clomb tine picturesque step-ladder OF
stars and looked down upon the wild
and beautiful picture OF glorified noun
tain and somber valley, MS the last col
ored loiterer had returned from the
distant revival, softly humming to him
self "Come to Jesus" while pair of
Plymouth Rocks cleeplly peered from
the pockets OF his army overcoat into
the glorious night, rs the ever-regretlul
pine of the Old North State gave back
TO the night wind hopeless whisper in
answer to its light caress, the last OF the
lustry robbers yielded to long exposure,
famine and the sharp, remorseless tooth
of time. His latest huttering breath,
went out upon the bosom of the noun
tain zephyr as shrill whistle sounded
from beyond the "trussle," and in less
than two hours, almost before his
body had become cold and rigid IN
death, the train with muffled rumble
and grumble and roar, with mad
shrek and a hot-box, passed him In Its
resistless flight.
So you see, Mr.. White, that this is no
place to rob trains. 1t is too uncertain,
This is good place for health, but il is
no place TO ROB trains. / can tell you
where there are some good, robust
chickens, or at least where they were
an hour ago; but, until the road here
has more respect for its timetable, l
would not advise train robber IN
whom felt an interest to come here.
know that at times your dOrnlck
farm. will look bleak and desolate to
you, andiyo1 will madly yearn for more
soil; BUTT is better than the enervatlng
toll OF sitting night after night in a
cold culvert, wearing set OF ialse
whiskers, size too large for you, and
waiting for train that may never
come. tf.tg
This is not all, friend White. Train
robbing is not now what it was fifteen
or twenty years ago. More people &C
"heeled' now than formerly. And
those who do not go heeled have nc
money. = F}
in riding through Nebraska some
years ago / was awakened one nigh
while in an upper berth by a train rob
Der who was total stranger to me
He did not move in our set. Hi
weapon wabbled so, owing to his OK
element that caught hold OF 1t (
keep it steady. and also in such a posi-
ition that if it happended to get itsel
discharged the contents would g
through medical student who occu
pied the lower berth. The train-rob
Der seemed to think wanted to stea
his nice new revolver, which he had n,
doubt secured by procuring two fresl
subscribers for child's paper, and s
he resisted. We struggled there 70
half an hour, presume, before ! sue
ceeded in robbing him.
A band OF robbers, it is said, tried t
rob train bound north from, Florid
three years ago, and though they me
with some resistance that was about a
they did meet with.
One roboer got a package OF tle
powder, a set Of false teeth and ches
nut bell. nv
Another secured a white vest.
buffalo overcpat and a small wet allig;
or. He did not know that he had s.
cured the alligator suntil two hour
afterward, when look OF pain Scam
over his face, aud one OF his companion
removed him from the small alligatC
which, it seems, had become very muc
attached to the robber by means OF. Ii
brow OF his pants. ALL ~ assl
(The mans pants mean. es,. -
Another got diary for 20, IN aud
phone and a truss. NHt a4 hss -
Still another got cigar-case, q spe
tacle-case and a case of smallpox.
In my opinion aman is a fool wi
will sit up nights and lose his. rest
otler 10 roo trains when he can 90
Congress and ket in his little work {
the sutpIns. Yours truly ! .s 5
BII4. NYE
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